What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull... Memoirs of Mr. John Tobin ... - Página 138por John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - 1820 - 444 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 páginas
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly 'Till that were cancell'd : and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 páginas
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...three days past : wit that might warrant be For the whde city to talk foolishly 'Till that were cancell'd : and when that was gone. We left an air behind... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 páginas
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town ....wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled ; and when that was gone We left an air behind us, which alone of... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 páginas
...wit in a jest, ' i And had resolved lo live a tool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able enough to justify the town For...that might warrant be .•'.,' For the whole city to talL. foolishly • , . • ,¡ ., i Till that were cancelled, a;id when that was gone, , We left an... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 páginas
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly, Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly, Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone... | |
| 1822 - 492 páginas
...from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there had been thrown...wit, that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled — and when that was gone, An air was left behind them, which alone... | |
| William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 páginas
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able enough to justify the town For...wit, that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled, and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone ,... | |
| 1823 - 536 páginas
...called the Mermaid, which was situated in Cornhill. There, as Beaumont tells us, ' hath been shewn Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit that might warrant For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 páginas
...Beaumont in his verses to Ben Jonson, " have we not seen done at the Mermaid! —— Then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly !" I cannot say the same of the S , though it stands on classic ground, and is connected... | |
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